California ’s government agencies aren’t ready to handle the safety risks accompanying a boom in oil shipments by train, the state said in a report this week. The warning comes even as the most populous U.S. state declines to disclose oil-by-rail data handed over by Burlington Northern Santa Fe on June 9. The railroad company deemed the summary of its oil shipments “sensitive security information” containing trade secrets. It’s only available to public safety agencies until the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services determines whether it’s confidential. “The report is spot on in highlighting the risks of crude-by-rail transport going through heavily populated areas,” Devorah Ancel, a San Francisco-based attorney for Sierra Club, an environmental group, said by telephone. “They need to take it a step further by disclosing this very important information. The fact that not all of it is coming out and that the public is not made […]

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